{"id":4788,"date":"2022-01-12T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:52:43","slug":"january-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=4788","title":{"rendered":"January Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whenever they can, my sons nudge my book choices towards science fiction.\u00a0 The first sci-fi book they gave me was Dune<\/em>.\u00a0 This book hit it out of the park for me. I mean, does anyone not love Dune<\/em> after the first fifty confusing pages? That was what they both warned me, that the first fifty pages were not that great but to keep going. I am so glad I did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the movie came out I became a big fan of Denis Villenueve.\u00a0 To wrestle that complicated plot and world into a coherent movie? It astounded me. I watched the film several times, each time startled by all the details he had slipped in.\u00a0 One moment I appreciated is the scene in the helicopter when Paul has a vision of a teacher from a possible future helping him in that nerve wracking dust storm.\u00a0 The teacher says, \u201cThe mystery of life isn\u2019t a problem to be solved but a reality to experience, a process that cannot be understood by stopping it.\u00a0 We must move with the flow of the process.\u00a0 We must join it. We must flow with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New Hampshire, January is a time of not much apparent flow.\u00a0 The earth is locked in ice, a bitter wind whips down from the arctic and nights are relentlessly chilly. Yesterday on my brisk walk down our hedgerow, it was so cold that Sheba sat up like a rabbit holding out her paws to let me know it was just too cold for her.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t think when she had bailed on a walk. If anyone uses that word \u201cwalk\u201d in conversation, she is at the door ready to go.\u00a0 Not yesterday though.\u00a0 Yesterday things felt locked down even for Sheba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet in the night as I\nconsidered this, I thought about all the flow that does happen in January.  Seed orders are sent and received.  Garden designs get scratched out on\npaper.  Projects for the coming season\nare tossed about. I hear whispers of new energies coming and the garden mandalas\nthat will contain them.  All this reminds\nme that sometimes flow is a quieter thing, an internal thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What have we all learned in\nthe last two years of contraction and diminished surface flow? What will be\nborn from this time? What inner flow will now spring into outward\nexpression?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you noticed how many people found new talents and interests during this time? I think we are only just beginning to find out what actually flowed during the last two years of contraction. Why even the winner of the British Bake Off shared that he learned to bake during lockdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve hardly seen anyone in what feels like forever, yet I\u2019ve still heard many stories of people finding new ways to express themselves during this time. A friend I was texting with this morning mentioned she was just finishing the edits on a book. Holy cow!\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t realized she was even writing a book let alone just wrapping it up for a publisher! She, like so many, found flow beneath the frozen circumstances.\u00a0 And it wasn\u2019t as if her life was a piece of cake during lockdown.\u00a0 She found flow while her husband was very ill and she was cut off, like the rest of us, from friends and family.\u00a0 For all of us, whatever is born has not been born without pain and suffering. I doubt anyone went through this time without some experiences of loss, grief or isolation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we help each other heal\nthe wounds of this time, listening to each other\u2019s stories and sharing from the\nheart, I feel we will listen with more curiosity and less judgement.  Yes, the media makes us believe that judgment\nis our main activity and repeats that party line as the one and only story. Yet\nfor me, whenever I have been lucky enough to talk to anyone during this time be\nit a grocery store clerk, a man delivering a load of firewood, the GHF staff\ngoddesses or the librarians holding the fort at our town library, I have found\nopen hearted sharing. I don\u2019t really care so much about dividing us all into\ncategories after all this and I certainly don\u2019t experience others as caring\neither.  It\u2019s like we know in the actual\nmoment of connection that any kind of sharing is what we need to heal.  My belief is that even as we were slowed down\nor even stopped in external action during this time, the inner flow of love and\ncreativity has risen in counterbalance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I look forward to all that\nwill come to light now.  I look forward\nto reconnecting and discovering what unique creations were born within each of\nus. I look forward to see all the love alive and well and ready to blossom in\neach heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, January can seem like a promise of eternal lockdown for all of us.\u00a0 But seeds promise a different story of new beginnings, new life, spring. And the seeds of love in our hearts have already begun to geminate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever they can, my sons nudge my book choices towards science fiction.\u00a0 The first sci-fi book they gave me was Dune.\u00a0 This book hit it out of the park for me. I mean, does anyone not love Dune after the first fifty confusing pages? That was what they both warned me, that the first fifty … Continue reading January Flow<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}